Jasmine's first AKHP! I feel so sad that I can't be there to witness her performance on the last day on 1st Dec 2017. Had to be home with Jasper who had stomach flu. So Joshua attended, took photos and lots of videos!
She is really a funny girl, she made us call her "super day!"
The first weekend of December Ah Ma was in Subang Jaya. I made them re-do the LL performance for Ah Ma to see, she has forgotten most of the actions even though we play the exact same song on youtube.
That evening, we took them to the playground. Jasper went first with daddy. Jasmine came with me later (we walked) after she helped me with the housework.
She helped me to take in the clean clothes. Saw me do the dishes in the kitchen and then she helped me to pack the milk powder for LL.
At night, I took only her with me to Subang Parade, with the mission to buy new sandals. She complained that the pink crocs is tight and the minnie mouse slippers is also a bit short without enough grip. So we went to the shoes shop near Uncle Lim, browsed through all the shoes, I asked her how she find it, she called the shoes "interesting" and that she prefers the coloruful designs more than the plain one. Half way through, she had to pee -_- and while waiting for her turn outside the toilet, she danced. Haha.
Anyway finally we found the pair of sandals nice, right size and right price at Bata! RM28 for pink polka dot velcro closure sandals.
She came home and asked daddy how did Jasper do with drawing or colouring while we were away. Daddy said "not bad".
She said "oh then good lah" and did a small clap.
She made us all laugh.
One morning, she woke up and shouted "mummy mummy it's Christmas!!"
I think she had a christmas dream.
Rocking out milk mustache!
New dress from Uniqlo (Ah Ma bought) and she was happy to put it on and pose for the camera.
5th Dec, workbook after dinner, Chinese words. She writes down the answer in the box by looking at the word and trying to copy, she was very observant with the dots and strokes. Which one is longer and which one is not.
Eventhough doing workbook was a pain, when I asked her whether she wants to do workbook or play chalk drawing at the back, she happily picked workbook! :D
So yes Spiderman. Joshua had to stop the movie half way so that I can take her to sleep.
Also, this first week of December, she preferred to use my bolster to sleep instead of her own. -_-
One day I told her that Jesus is the shepherd She said no he is the son of God. I said he is also the shepherd. We searched the bible book (really woolly) together for the picture of shepherd, as we were searching, she know which one I was looking for and pointed it out before I could. And said proudly that she has sharp eyes.
This girl, one day she was peeing in toilet, rolling the toilet paper (tried to roll it back nicely) but the whole roll fell to the floor, she cried so loud.
I introduced to her the game of snake and ladder and tictactoe.
She is not really getting it but some exposure should be good. She cried with tears when she lose the snake & ladder game! She said she wants to win.
We celebrated Jasper's birthday at LL after their nap time. Jasmine joined too.
If she goes to Summer in 2018, disconnected from LL friends, make new friends and eventually we sends her to VA, it will be another disconnection and reconnection. Will be so heart breaking.
We are leaning towards sending to VA, but we worry the emphasis on Chinese will be insufficient, so we came up with the solution that I provide tuition to maybe 3 other kids at the same time. Make some extra pocket money and she will have more motivation from friends too.
But our focus in 2018 will be for her to learn to read English words first. Please Jasmine please learn to read k? Then only we can do a soft start to learning Chinese.
In terms of music, I hope that can start drums in 2018 although Joshua had the concern that she is still too small for our adult drum set. Start piano lessons in 2019? Maybe to buy her a keyboard as birthday present in 2018?
But for sure I want her to learn to swim in 2018. She is already improving in the balance bike so I think swimming should be the next one on the list. After that maybe join Sporty Kids to learn other sports that require team work!
The dinosaur should be Jasper's and the doll belongs to Jasmine. I think so.
She tries to reads to Jasper whatever she interpreted from the pictures. :) See that pants worn up high, I did it, I think it's just really cute. She finds it funny.
11th December TTDI park, with the Kongs.
We took their bikes there and Jasmine went so fast & quickly ahead of us, she was mostly with Daniel Kong. We were slow because we had to wait for Jasper and keep encouraging him.
Then we found a place where we want to stop to play some outdoor games.. I brought Jasper's ball but they couldn't play long.
And as always, they end up playing at the playground.
We had lunches together before we said goodbye.
Somehow we always end up hanging out with the Kongs. It's not a bad thing, but the boys seemed to always play on their own, not really involving my kids, which is weird. Oh well.
We have a new morning routine in the house. No more moo moo cow, but cheese and bread!
Sometimes they want only cheese, sometimes only bread. ;)
Some mornings, like this one, she just randomly wants to wear dominos hat to school.
Christmas is coming, so why wait anymore? Set up the tent, christmas tree and christmas lights in the living room, and partially to be ready for Jasper's birthday party.
This is the next morning, before going to school, they had to come in for a while.
One of the countdowns activities is buy ornaments. We went to Empire but the choices were really limited. I just focused on getting the cheaper ones and get them to pay for it themselves. Jasmine under my suggestion has picked a silver flower ornaments, to add to our tree!
16th Dec, Jasper's birthday party at home!
Before the party I made her take the countdown envelope, but she didn't want to. I threatened her that I will take down the countdown, means we won't countdown anymore, she said ok. That made me really angry. Note to self, do not use the threatening to the kids, they most of the time will take it even better than you!!
So after the party Joshua spoke to her, she said she was not happy because Jasper had crumpled the envelope and the card. -_-
Lisa was the first to arrive, almost always the first. She likes to hang out with Jasmine
Magic show by daddy. She's seen the tricks before.
After the party, we attended Anna Ling's party at Kids E World.
For Christmas presents for her friends, I had bought the playdoh that has about 10 in it, for her to give to her favourite friends and maybe buy chocolates for her teachers.
But one day, she just suddenly said to us that she wants to bake cookies for everyone at Little Legends. @.@ And that's how plans changed, we delegated baking to Ah Yi.
17th Dec, at night, we talked about listen to mummy. I told her when mummy say come, you come. Say don't jump, then you don't jump, otherwise you may start wheezing and we have to send you to the hospital. She went on to start talking about how she doesn't like the hospital. Because she won't be able to come home, and she will miss her bed. And how the nebulizer takes so long each time, she can't do anything. And her right hand will have the big needles, which was painful and she can't move the hand much. It's really amazing how she can remember so much details of the experience.
I helped her write names for her teachers and friends, some blanks for the names she may have forgotten to mention.
In the morning she was so excited about distributing them, she shouted as she walks into LL, "I got presents for everyone!"
And this is the satisfied face when I pick her up. She is so proud and happy she shared her cookies. Teacher said she was very excited about giving everything out.
Sunday evening she spoke a bit of Chinese - wo hai yao pasta.
She also could say "wo hen gao xing... " because I kept saying those to her.
Sunday, we forgot to bring her acts kids bag thus she had no water bottle with her. She had to ask for water from Jade (not enough) and then went to Actspresso to ask water from Sam and Amelia on separate times. I made her ask them herself, because I want her to learn to be responsible for her own bag.
Next day, Monday on the way to LL she asked me whether I remember her bag. I praised her for reminding me about it and assured her that her bread & water are all in.
I told her next time we should get Jasper to do the same.
She said "I will teach Jasper because I am big girl already".
Photos with balloons from Jasper's party.
One very funny night, with only yellow lights in her room, she was about to sleep but suddenly wanted me to cut her skin on one finger. I took the nail clipper and accidentally cut too deep into her flesh, but there were no bleeding because I didn't press too hard. She immediately felt the pain and switched channel told me "mummy better already no need to cut" and rolled back to sleep.
We opened the Ikea easel board as one of the countdown activities, she drew angels, ocean and christmas tree on it together with daddy.
Christmas at Sunway Pyramid, take pictures with Santa & post on facebook entitles us to free gifts.
I am fine if she doesn't like Santa, I think it's the least important detail of Christmas. But free gift, why not!
She got girly key chain. And she uses it to play at the display car tracks. I love it that instead of feeling left out and demanding for a car like other kids there (you can buy on the spot but the selections were not that nice), she made do with what she had!
Both wanted to eat bread before we go home, so we bought a bun from The Loaf.
Learning to reach for the light switches by standing on the stool.
She is great at folding blankets now.
And the gown is now so important due to the cold rainy weather, whenever she wears it, I will call her Your Majesty.
LL shuts down and then both kids were at home with me.
Day 1 I made snow rice balls. It was actually fried rice that accidentally turned too soggy so I decided to squeezed them into balls and then because the texture was a bit flat, so I added cornflakes on it, told them it's snow and she love the idea so much she asked for more snow and more snow.
Day 2, breakfast at the back in the morning sun while I dry the laundry.
I was not on leave but working from home. But honestly there were just nothing much on going I really hardly worked!!
People often say once your kid is 5, they enter into a new stage. Next stage will be 9 or 10..
23 December - Ipoh holiday finally! The night before she was already very excited about it.
The journey was quite bad, traffic jam for 4 hours.
Finally arrived at the MU Hotel, they were impressed by this giant christmas tree.
Wedding dinner! the whole objective of coming to Ipoh la.
Next morning, going for breakfast buffet downstairs.
Ready to check out. Some wefies with weird & funny faces. :)
Buy salted chicken.
The same day we came back from Ipoh, was the Christmas Eve party at the Puahs!
Shin Wee gave her a brain quest cards. The colour pallete is from us!
Christmas presents from acts kids and other people in church.
At night they were playing like this after dinner, while we decided to go to Decathlon. Main objective was to get them new towels for next year.
I am glad I bought her a good swim wear for RM49, one that really keeps her warm, think material and outer later is water proof. Bought size for 4yo because that's the biggest. We got it in blue so Jasper can use it next time.
I didn't plan on dressing her with the small skirt but she insisted.. so leggings plus skirt. Hahah.
I was hoping there will be sales, but nope. Nothing much. Not even at the AS IS corner.
Afternoon free art time at home. We thought that with the ikea easel board, they wouldn't want this kind of art time, but it still works.
Sharing with us her school work from LL. It's so a lot that I feel bad throwing most of them but no place to keep too. So we select some significant ones to keep. The good ones to snap photo and store in Artkive. And those that still have teaching values I file them together for maybe some revisions.
27 Dec - Kidzania! I did not teach her to pose like this. She is natural at feminine poses. Where did she learn these from?
Didn't know that she will need a lanyard, the shop also ran out of stock so I improvised by clipping this light pouch to her dress by using a key chain ring.
We queued for McD but too packed she wanted to go home. We tried bomba also too long queue so we went to search for smaller stations.
3rd assignment - unifi station to play games with ipad.
After I get to know Alycia a bit more, I got worried because Alycia seems to recognise numbers and counts really fast! And she could read a bit... oh no.. I started to teach at home and realised, Jasmine is very confused between 6 and 8, she cant identify them.
When Jasper is taking nap and she got up first, I got her to do painting with christmas presents, she painted a rainbow. Still not use to the new colour pallete though.
Bounce house at the Muar river.
During the day in the house, she plays with all sorts of toys in the house, with Ah Ma.
And then Ah Ma bought RM65 worth of toys for both of them. Jasmine had a free doll fro the uncle too.
One of the best way to end the Year 2017... is with family. :) :) And exploring new activities at our neighbourhood. :D
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